Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1863 Oil on panel, 25.4 x 46.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Monet spent the summer of 1870 at Trouville, the popular French resort along the English Channel. This…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) L’Europe après la pluie (Europe after the Rain II) 1940–1942 Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 147.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Ernst began this work in occupied France during World War II. He finished it in New York…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La nuit (The Night) s.d. Oil on canvas, 61 × 46 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford The Night (Act 2, Scene 4: Balcony Scene) from “Romeo and Juliet“. See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Ville entière (The Entire City) 1934 Oil on paper on canvas, 50.2 × 61.3 cm Tate Britain, London A crumbling city looms oppressively below the ring-shaped moon. Ernst made a whole series of such works. The imagery may…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Celebes 1921 Oil on canvas, 125.4 × 107.9 cm Tate Britain, London The central rotund shape in this painting derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Les Hommes n’en sauront rien (Men Shall Know Nothing of This) 1923 Oil on canvas, 80.3 × 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst studied philosophy and psychology in Bonn and was interested in the alternative realities experienced by the…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Pietà ou La révolution la nuit (Pietà or Revolution by Night) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.2 × 88.9 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst was a surrealist artist. Inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s (1856–1939) theory of the unconscious, surrealism…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Lune en bouteille (Moon in a Bottle) 1955 Oil on canvas, 60 × 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London After an eight-year exile in the USA, where he settled in Arizona, Ernst began to visit Europe in 1949. He…